1·We can scrape along without asking for subsidies.
我们不要求补助也能过下去。
2·I can scrape along on a reduced income for a short time, but not for ever.
短时间内，我可以靠减少的收入勉勉强强度日，但不能维持长久。
3·I can scrape along on a reductive income for a short time, but not for ever.
收入减少后短期内我还可以凑合着过，但不能长期这样下去。
4·All these cases have in common that stationary objects scrape along the edge of the moving belt.
所有这些案件的共同点，静止的物体沿传送带的边缘刮。
5·They paid him a low salary, on which he was quite content to scrape along in the hope that something better would turn up.
他们支付他的工资很低，但他却很满意地靠此维持生计，他总希望着总有一天会有好事降临到他的头上。
6·The life of a tenant farmer’s family was of course hard, but we somehow managed to scrape along because mother was a clever and able woman.
佃农家庭的生活自然是很苦的。 可是由于母亲的聪明能干，却很舒服。